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hole puncher

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Also known as holing pincer, hole maker, perforator, paper puncher, puncher, paper punch, hole punch, Hole Punches

office tool for making uniform holes in paper

Wikidata facts

Instance of
office supply
Subclass of
stationery
Material used
metal
Image
Hole punch.JPG
Has use
punching
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Commons category
Hole punchers
different from
punch cutting
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Encyclopedic overview

Three different international-standard two-hole punches A hole punch, also known as a hole puncher or paper puncher, is an office tool and item of stationery that is used to create holes in sheets of paper, often for the purpose of collecting the sheets in a binder or folder (such collected sheets are called loose leaves). A hole punch can also refer to similar tools for other materials, such as leather, cloth, or sheets of plastic or metal.

Mechanism

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “hole puncher” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.